 | Euclides - 1884 - 434 pages
...the fixed point is inside the circle, outside the circle, and on the oce. BOOK III. DEFINITIONS. 1. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line which...within the figure to the circumference are equal. This point is called the centre of the circle, and the straight lines drawn from the centre to the... | |
 | Stewart W. and co - 1884 - 272 pages
...or more boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, called the circumference, such that all straight lines drawn from a certain...to the circumference are equal to one another. XVI. This point is called the centre. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the... | |
 | Popular educator - 1884 - 900 pages
...is a plane figure contained or bounded by a eurml line, called the circumference or periphery, which is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to tho circumference are equal to each other. This point Fig:. 6. Fig. 7. ii called the centre of the... | |
 | Arthur Machen - Smoking - 1884 - 104 pages
...the material part or genus, and the formal part or differentia. Now the definition of a circle is " A circle is a plane figure contained by one line which is called the circumference," which definition " a plane figure" is the genus, and " contained by one line" the differentia ; and... | |
 | James Bailey Andrews - Circle-squaring - 1884 - 40 pages
..."Euclid's" definition of what constitutes a circle and its diameter — "A circle is a plane figure bounded by one line, which is called the circumference ; and is such, that all right lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1884 - 862 pages
...XV. A circle [cone of revolution with vertex at the eye] is a figure contained by one line [surface] which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines [angles] drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another.... | |
 | Colin Arrott R. Browning - 1884 - 274 pages
...trapeziums. This is practised in laud surveying. (23) A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from the centre to the circumference are equal. Every such line is called a radius. The Diameter is a straight... | |
 | Thomas Henry Eagles - 1885 - 404 pages
...is equal to four times the square on CB. CHAPTER II. THE CIRCLE. EUCLID'S well known definition is " A circle is a plane figure •contained by one line,...figure to the circumference are equal to one another : and this point is called the centre of the circle". A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn... | |
 | Thomas Henry Eagles - Conic sections - 1885 - 401 pages
...is equal to four times the square on CB. CHAPTER II. THE CIRCLE. EUCLID'S well known definition is "A circle is a plane figure contained by one line,...figure to the circumference are equal to one another : and this point is called the centre of the circle". A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn... | |
 | Euclid, John Casey - Euclid's Elements - 1885 - 340 pages
...circle is a plane figure formed by a curved line called the circumference, and is such that all right lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called the centre. xxxin. A radius of a circle is any right line drawn from the centre... | |
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A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another : 16. 
